I understand that charges of anti-semitism have been hurled at the
courageous nurses on your staff who refuse to participate in the barbaric
practice of circumcision.

The charges are preposterous. The American movement to outlaw
circumcision is teeming with Jews -- like myself. Our numbers in the
movement are way out of proportion to our percentage in the
population overall. Many leaders of the anti-circumcision campaign
are Jewish, as are medical doctors, researchers, college professors, and
others among the rank and file.

The Bible of our movement [Circumcision: An American Health
Fallacy, Springer Publishing Co., 1980] -- an exhaustive, authoritative
volume compiling all the evidence for the case against circumcision --
was written by Edward Wallerstein, a Jew.

And it was Sigmund Freud himself who said that the root cause of
anti-semitism worldwide is circumcision. Freud was, of course, a Jew.

Please don't be swayed by the emotionally charged epithet of
anti-semitism leveled against your noble nurses by a few hysterical
individuals.

Respectfully,

Ralph Ginzburg

[Ralph Ginzburg is the founder, editor and publisher of FACT
Magazine, which printed the classic landmark document "The
Unkindest Cut of All", by John M. Foley, MD, in its July-August
1966 issue. The letter above is quoted here with his permission.]